Poems for a New World

by Connie Fife

Connie Fife’s new collection of poems extends an invitation to the mind and heart to come together as equal partners at the banquet table of mother Earth. She asks us to reflect on our contemporary directions and what we are doing to our fellow human beings and the environment. Reflecting Fife’s viewpoint as a Cree, mother and lesbian, these poems cross boundaries, speaking to each of us in our "separate homelands" reminding us of the healing power of song, words and deeds. The poems are beautifully complemented with cover art from the painting "Comes a Woman" by the Native painter Francis Dick.

Genres: Poetry, Indigenous

88 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2001

Reviews

[zaynab · Rating 5 out of 5]

I stumbled across this collection by virtue of searching for Chrystos's poetry. Just my luck, she had given this collection a glowing review. I throughly enjoyed this collection. While written at the turn of the century, its themes harken back to a time of robust anti-imperialist poetics: her poems about the murders of Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, the invasion of Yugoslavia by NATO, couched in an overarching meditation on indigenous life and resistance. May those who read it feel inspired to step into this tradition. In the world we currently occupy, it's sorely needed.